Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes

I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace

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• Beats
• Decided
• Radiohead
• Drained

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• Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Comfortable
  • Tendency

• Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • More
  • Nobody
  • Alumni

• Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Feeling

• My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Bad
  • Mom

• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Time
  • Vision

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Respect
  • Theatre

• I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Simple

• I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

  

  Xenophon
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Remember

• Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Great
  • Bad
  • History

• I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Come Up

• You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Know
  • Reason
  • End

• I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Women
  • Myself

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Movies

• I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Africa
  • House of Representatives
  • Subcommittee

• If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

  

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  • People
  • Look
  • Ask

• With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Three

• I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Movies

• When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • People
  • Friends
  • Three

• And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Great
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Three
  • Beats
  • Decided